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

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.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

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

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.