I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

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.

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

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

I was having my teens in my 30s.

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