There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I….

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband ….

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating..

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school..

I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with r….

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag..

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter b….

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I a….

I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I th….

If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to p….

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses..

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it..

Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was….

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird..

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan..

Single by choice, just not my choice..

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never kn….

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings..

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing..

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you….

Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always….