Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.

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.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

I swim more or less every day.

I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

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.