She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

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I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I'd had a privileged education and an acting career.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.

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