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

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

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

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'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

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