Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.

Joan Collins

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Louise Jameson

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

To give requires good sense.

Ovid

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Julius Caesar

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

Kurt Vonnegut

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Emile M. Cioran

In oratory the will must predominate.

David Hare

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.

Faith Evans