The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

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.

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

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