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When I Was Doing Shakespeare And I Had Spent A Lot Of Time And Effort In Trying To Become A Great Shakespearean Actress. That Was How I Started My Career, Was In The Theater Doing Shakespeare. And My Ambition Was To Be A Great Classical Actress. That Was What I Wanted More Than Anything. So, I Really Pursued That In The First Four Years Of My Career. And It Was An Uphill Struggle. It Really Was. Shakespeare's Difficult And Shakespeare In A Big Theater Is Even More Difficult. So, Anyway, It Was A Struggle For Me.

I Think Of Myself As Being A Bit Of A Wimp Deep Down - A Bourgeois Wimp - And I'm Fighting That. I Think All Brits Are, Maybe.

I Don't Think It's Good To Try And Change Anyone. The Trick And The Mystery - Of Relationships And Life In General - Is To Learn To Live With The Bits You Don't Like.

I'm Not A Republican Any More. Not So Voraciously Anyway - I'm Not In Favour Of The Concept Of Monarchy, But I Do See The Good In It If There's A Good Person In The Role.

Fear Can Be One Of The Most Destructive Emotions. It Is, Of Course, Also Very Important, In That Fear Sometimes Stops You From Doing Stupid Things. But It Can Also Stop You From Doing Creative Or Exciting Or Experimental Things. It Can Cloud Your Judgement Of Others, And Lead To All Kinds Of Evil. The Control And Understanding Of Our Personal Fears Is One Of The Most Important Undertakings Of Our Lives.