When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
It's probably hard to be married to me. It's not easy.
Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.