Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
My sister Tricia Leigh and I vow to be whatever our niece Billie needs us to be.
Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
