Being Me Right Now Is Sort Of

I Couldn't Handle The Rules The Queen Has To Live By At All, And Very Few Of Us Could. It's A Golden Cage, Really. You're Never Alone In That Role - You Are Always Surrounded By Security.

There's A Scary Moment When You Realise You're No Longer The Youngest Person In The Room. Especially If You've Been A Successful Young Person. That's Followed, Of Course, By The Realisation That You're Actually The Oldest Person In The Room.

When You're Young, You Wonder What All These Old People Are Droning On About, Trying To Impart Their Wisdom. It's Not Relevant To You Because Being Young Is Such A Specific Thing. Thank God For That. Thank God For The Young People Who Go Out And Demonstrate Against Rampant Capitalism Or Whatever.

You Know, You Have To Allow Life To Play Itself Out, Don't You? And One Thing You Learn Is That It Doesn't Stop. It Moves On.

I Think Of Myself As Mirren Rather Than Mironova, Absolutely. I Am A Brit, Really. I Mean When I Go To Russia And I Do Have, Maybe It's A Romantic Fantasy. You Know Us Actors, We're Very Good At Romantic Fantasies.