I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

I can talk myself so much into my part.