Zoe Wanamaker

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 have the confidence to be a personality.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.