I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.