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

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

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

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