It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.