Zoe Wanamaker

I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

I don't like to get in front of people.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

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.