My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say..

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines..

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York..

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I wa….

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary..

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me ….

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you ….

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House..

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way..

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money..

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmo….

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really li….

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill..

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were..

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages..

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and a….

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown..

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hu….

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once..

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do….

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure ….