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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

I live quite an unsettled life.