I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?

Celebrate you! For if you don’t, no one will.

Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life's a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

I want to see the economy rebound.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.