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 the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

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

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

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.