I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

- Stephanie Beacham

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I…

- Stephanie Beacham

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

- Stephanie Beacham

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

- Stephanie Beacham

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace th…

- Stephanie Beacham

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

- Stephanie Beacham

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refu…

- Stephanie Beacham

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

- Stephanie Beacham

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to spea…

- Stephanie Beacham