So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.