I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.