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

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

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

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

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.