Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.
I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.