It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

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.

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.

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child.You wanted to try to deserve it.

I am worthy of touch without bartering my self worth.

Smile if you want to be happy now

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

You raze the old to raise the new.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.