I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as long as you don't stop in the middle and go down where you have gone this far.

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.