Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

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.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

If it looks like your grandma's bedsheets, I'll put it on my body.

'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

Annoying people with no class at all should stay far away from computers!

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start.

I love my children unconditionally.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

You're tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don't let your feet stop.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.