I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

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.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

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

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.