I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

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.

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

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

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

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