I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.