The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.

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

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

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

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.