We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.