Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey.

The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.