If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.