Greta Scacchi

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I want to come across as a positive person.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.