I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.
It's a blessing to be able to do different things really, I feel so lucky.
I love acting, I really do, I've always loved doing it, and it's a joy to be asked to do this. I mean, to do Beatrice, for God's sake, it is the best comedy Shakespeare role for a woman, and to be asked to do it.
I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going to say skills but they're not really skills, it's just stuff that I know how to do I suppose.
Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.
I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.
Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.
I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.
I've spent my entire life spelling my surname.