People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street. That street, to me, has always been the street of dream.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

It's great to be queen!