I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad, I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.