Lindsay Duncan

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.

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

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

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.