I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

As long as I am still interested and curious I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.

To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

We should respect all people.

Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

We see the world in terms of our theories.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.