There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in our face so it could get expressions….

I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probab….

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight l….

I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth..

I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I th….

I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? ….

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any..

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warp….

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out..

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would….

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to ….

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer..

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles..

It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you….

Well, I'd never done an animated movie before, which is why I was so excited about doing it. It was one of the little boxes as an actor that I wanted….

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement..

I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any w….

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old gre….

I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my husband. I was playing Regan and he was….

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go t….

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I com….