I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

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.