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'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

'Ghosts' is the most incredible play I've read for years.

When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.