If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

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