I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

My worst quality is impatience.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

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.