I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

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

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.