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" I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. "

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" I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. "

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" I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything. "

" People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals. "

" Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie. "

" It's what people create that makes my heart stop. "

" Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now. "

" If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of. "

" You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam! "

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" Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood. "

Looking Forward

" What really matters to me is what my peers think. "

" Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff. "

Having Children

" I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces. "

" I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. "

" You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.' "

" People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. "

" If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be? "

" Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments. "

" I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country. "

" There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life! "

" I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.' "

" I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. "

" In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That's lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park. "