I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that while I'm married with children.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.