Richard Eyre

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.