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

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

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

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.