I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.