I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.