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" Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised. "

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" I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre. "

" When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it. "

" I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street. "

" It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff. "

" There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way. "

" I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food. "

" Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad. "

" 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values. "

" If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas. "

" My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that's about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe. "

" I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up. "

" I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself. "

" I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams. "

" I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it. "

" There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me. "

" I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things. "

" Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody. "

" I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends. "

" I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year. "

" Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three. "

" My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live. "

" My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it. "

" Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control. "

" In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all. "

" I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper. "

" I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic. "

" It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life. "

" There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. "

" The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair. "

" The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met. "