I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.