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

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

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

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.

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

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.