Top 21 Quotes by Lydia Leonard

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.