When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

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

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?

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

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