I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I swim more or less every day.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocence

Become faithful to yourself, if you do, it will come natural towards everyone else.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Healing does not take place in the fast lane.

My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun I generally bowl my best.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Find happiness by enjoying the journey, not by awaiting the destination.