I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

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.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

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.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.