What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.