I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.