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

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

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

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

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

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

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.