I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.