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

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

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

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

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.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.