As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

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

My body is a baby machine.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

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

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.