And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.