I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

When fear no longer takes hold, the possibilities are endless.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities