I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

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 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.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

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.

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