- I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
- Although actually American - "When in America, I feel British, and proud of it!"
- On not having children: "And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over."
- I did a Who Do You Think You Are? (2004) last year and I was taken to see the FBI files in Washington. Daddy's file, full of bits blanked out, is that thick! I discovered that he must have been tipped off in 1951 that he was going to be subpoenaed by McCarthy's committee, so he took a film job in England, and we came over, Mummy and my elder sister and I, on the Queen Mary.
- One thing we did discuss, before he [father Sam Wanamaker] died, was whether I should take over the Globe. And we agreed 190 per cent that it was not my thing. I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people. So that was a relief.
- [Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"] starts quietly, and then just builds. It's just genius writing. You can turn this play on a sixpence! There's so much guilt in it, it's quite Greek - Man or god makes a mistake and it keeps coming back to haunt us.
- It's wonderful that a show that's so normal could go on for so long. It's not cutting-edge, but it has still struck a chord, because everyone can sit down and watch it without being offended. It's gentle, warm and loving. (On My Family (2000))
- Learning the scripts is agony. Robert Lindsay is very fast. He seems to have a genuinely photographic memory, which is very irritating!
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