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.

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

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.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show.

Life ain't the movies.

Always tell the truth and be true.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.