My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

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

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

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

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

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.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.