Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.