There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'

There's a couple I really like. I like the paper dolls ... the Queen Victoria.

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.