“I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have...” — Samantha Bond Quote

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Don't let your opportunities slip away.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

When a big club takes the lead at home, then they cannot let it slip and be turned over.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.