I Live Quite An Unsettled Life.

When I Very First Started Out, I Had That Arrogance Of Youth.

The Highest Pay Cheque My Mother Ever Received Funded The Building Of A Nursery School In Shepherd's Bush - The School Cost Well Over Three Times The Money She Donated To The Making Of The Film 'the Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly This Always Goes Unmentioned In The Press.

I Care So Much Less, Now, About Going Up The Ladder; If I Cared About The Ladder I Would Be Doing It All Very Wrong.

Ok, I Wasn't As Successful As, Say, Julia Roberts, But I'd Spent Years In A Very Respectable Career, Some Big American Films But A Host Of Other Smaller, Really Exciting, Maybe Experimental Films, Being Paid Rubbish But Working With Fine People, That Was What I Thought I Was Known For.

So Finally, I Can Feel A Sort Of Pride In All My Family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, My Cousin Gemma - Because, I Think How Wonderful That This Troop Of Gypsies Can Carry On Telling Stories.