Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.