Eve Best

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity. ”

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it. ”

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home. ”

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam. ”

There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series. ”

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. ”

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. ”

I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them. ”

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief. ”

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens. ”