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It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.