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I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.


I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.


In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.


People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.


The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.


And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.


I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.


I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky.


People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.


I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.


I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.


In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.


I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.


The theater is the thing I love doing most.


The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?


The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.


Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.


It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.


It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.


I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.