I swim more or less every day.

I adore food and always have.

Acting has been very useful to me.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

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.

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 think one wants lots of different lives.