I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

Popularity is totally overrated.

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."