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.

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.

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.

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.

I live quite an unsettled life.

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