I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

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

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

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

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.