You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

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

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

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

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.