We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
• Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
• If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
• I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
• I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
• I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
• I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
• With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
• I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.