Sheila Hancock

I was this sort of floozy in 'The Rag Trade,' and 'Mr Digby Darling,' and 'Now, Take My Wife' - the titles…

— Sheila Hancock

You're never going to get 2,400 people a night for a play. I'm sorry, you really aren't.

— Sheila Hancock

I can't think of anybody among the greats who isn't constantly looking at themselves and feeling dissatisfied. You're greedy in this business:…

— Sheila Hancock

On 'The X Factor,' they deliberately have people on that are awful just to laugh at them.

— Sheila Hancock

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill…

— Sheila Hancock

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was…

— Sheila Hancock

There isn't a carer in the world who doesn't say, 'I hate it. My life is being ruined. I didn't see my…

— Sheila Hancock

I was struck during the Brexit debate by how little discussion there was about the origins of the concept of a united…

— Sheila Hancock

I have never met anybody who can change their point of view as easily as me. It's profoundly embarrassing.

— Sheila Hancock

I cannot pass by seeing a child shouted at, and people dropping litter. I'm terrible for intervening. There's nothing worse than busybodies…

— Sheila Hancock

I don't want my daughters reading about the day I was furious with one of them and said something horrible, that I…

— Sheila Hancock

I can't do solitude.

— Sheila Hancock

Mindful that it's running out, I am determined to have the time of my life.

— Sheila Hancock

I can't keep my trap shut in interviews - I'm not very good at dissembling.

— Sheila Hancock

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

— Sheila Hancock

I've never been one of those nanas who pretends to be young.

— Sheila Hancock

It's wonderful to be with people of a younger generation. it really is.

— Sheila Hancock

Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don't do it for fun.

— Sheila Hancock

You have to be very careful about your mental health.

— Sheila Hancock

Prompting children to create imaginary worlds is hugely important.

— Sheila Hancock

Around a quarter of cancers eventually spread to the brain. As people live longer, their risk of developing cancer increases; as cancer…

— Sheila Hancock

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out…

— Sheila Hancock

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.

— Sheila Hancock

It is well known that people who are involved with people who have addictive problems have a problem themselves. You are drawn…

— Sheila Hancock

I'm wildly left wing, but I'm also a terrible chauvinist.

— Sheila Hancock