I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.
Get an Alan Bennett script; then everybody will want to do it, no matter how big they are.
I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.
Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.
I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.
I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.
I did go to public school, but that's only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that's helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' to playing Barbara Cartland, from 'Coronation Street' to playing Celia in Last 'Tango'.
I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.
I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.
Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.
Inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life.
I'm more temperamental. As I've got older, I've become more demanding.
