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

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

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.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

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.