I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

There is no normality in life.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.