OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

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

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

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

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.

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 live quite an unsettled life.