I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.