I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.