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.

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

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

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

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.

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