Quotes from Greta Scacchi

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

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.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

I want to come across as a positive person.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

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

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

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

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

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.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

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

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

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

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.

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

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

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

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

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.