Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.