I Went From Everyone Saying, "she-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," To

I Don't Have A Problem With My Body. I'm Not Just Going To Strip Off All My Clothing, But If The Part Calls For It And I Don't Think There's Any Way Round, I'm Absolutely Fine.

I Don't Want To Deny My Femininity. But Would I Want To Be A Stay-at-home Mother? No. On The Other Hand, You Should Be Allowed To Do That, As Should Men, Without Being Sneered At.

I Think Sometimes It's Sort Of Easier To Be Playing A Role Based On A Real Person Because There's Quite Often A Lot More Information, You're Not Making It Up, It's There In Books, It's There In Research Form. But Really The Questions You Ask About The Character, And Why People Behave, And Where They Come, And How They've Ended Up In The Places They've Ended Up Are The Same.

I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.

My Mum Says That I Was Born 45, And I Do Remember At Six Thinking That I Should Be Earning My Own Living.