I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.