Lindsay Duncan

My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.