I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

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.

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

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.