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.

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.

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

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

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

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.