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

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

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.

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.

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

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