All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

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

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.