I'm a realist.

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

I don’t think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

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.

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.

I think it is very sad that ‘sitcom’ has become a pejorative term.

I don’t believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

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.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can’t actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we’ve all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

I’m sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people – because the ages don’t mix any more.