I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.