People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

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

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

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

I was terrible at school.

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.

I never raise my voice!