I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

I experience God as the power of love.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.