I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.