I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

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

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.