I love touring, I really do.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

In space, no one can hear you scream.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.