I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

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.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

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

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

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.