I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

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