I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like.

...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

I put a drop of lavender essential oil on my pillow before I go to sleep.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.