For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

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.

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

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

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

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

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