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?'

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

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

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

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

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

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