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

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

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.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.