I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

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.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.