17 Quotes by Eve Best

I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being – its beyond belief.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.