It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.
I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.
Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.
Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.
I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.
