I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
We lack rituals in this modern world.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
