A charming woman is a busy woman.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.