I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.