Susannah York

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.