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

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

One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

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'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.