A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.
It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.
I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.
If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.
It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
No, I always wanted to be an actress.
A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.