After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

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.

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

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

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

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.