I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.

There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.