I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don't want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That's very important to me.