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.

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.

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.

Wow, " Jake said, his face going blank. "Assface. Is that a technical term? Maybe some kind of psychiatric diagnosis I'm not familiar with?

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.