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.

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

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

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.

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.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.