It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

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

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.