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

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

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.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Do not just accept everything. Investigate carefully.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.

Atlantean medicine was evolved to heal, since healing is oneness.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.