I have sleepless nights before press days.

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

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

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

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

I couldn't imagine a home without animals.