“You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You’re on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.”

Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can’t do that if you’re a musician.

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

I’m mostly a jazz fan and I’ve never really been into rock ‘n’ roll music.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we’re still paying for it.

Film has always been hard for me, I’m basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.

What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?