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.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

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

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

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.