I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

If you really love something set it free. If it comes back its yours if not it wasnt meant to be.

Never give a sucker an even break.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

If youre passionate about what you do then go for it wholeheartedly. Be prepared that if anytime you may be surprised by a phenomenal opportunity that may come your way and thats when I say do your homework. Be ready.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Failure is a great teacher, if you're open to it.

Pour yourself a drink put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.

The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.