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

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

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

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.

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

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.