I think one wants lots of different lives.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

My parents were not theatrical at all.