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.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

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

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

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

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.