The word Action! frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find

Perfectly Scandalous was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly

What do they call a comedian who doesn't get any laughs? A philosopher

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity

Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one

I never had my own name on a bathing suit on Baywatch. I was always given one that said Pamela or Yasmine. I earned my own suit, at the end of the season, which I now have framed

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor