In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

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

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?