There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.