I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.