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.

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

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

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

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.

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