I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

I don't get star-struck at all.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.