I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on TV.

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

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.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.