I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

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

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it.