I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.