Imelda Staunton

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.