Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

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

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

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

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.