It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

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

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

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.

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.