Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.