I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

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

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.