It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

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'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

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.

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

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.