I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

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.

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.