I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

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

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.

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.