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

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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 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 ….

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would ha….

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do,….

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….

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are….

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

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