I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

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.

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

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.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.