I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.