I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

I like to shock people.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.