I'm a late developer.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

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

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