It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

I think that period dramas just need zombies.

When people feel good, they look good.

I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.

Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return.

How I hate you, " he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates with me incredibly. And I was an outsider. So I know very much about that.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.