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.

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

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 do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

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

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

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