Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

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.

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

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

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.