Lindsay Duncan

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.