I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.