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I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

It's great to be queen!

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.