I'm very protective of friends and family.
Something devastating can happen to you, and it can have positive consequences. By the same token, something fantastic can happen, and it can bring a lot of trouble. That's life.
The reason I wanted to do 'Strictly' in the end is that you come out of it having learned something.
To be playing Joan Crawford is as good as it gets.
When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.
People who are geniuses, once they get going, you really have to keep up.
The last place you'll find me is the gym. It seems to me to be a waste of time - I could spend that time doing so many other things.
I got extremely fit and slim on 'Strictly,' but I did find that, each week, a different part of my body hurt. It really makes you realise the hard work dancers have to put in and how fit they have to be.
I'm pretty fit. We've got a lot of stairs in our house, and I'm up and down them all the time. Plus, I don't smoke, and I'm vegetarian.
I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.
I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.
You turn down work you feel you've already done.
I went from being a jobbing actress who was just earning a living to being the second most photographed woman in Britain, next to Princess Diana - but it was exciting, too, and I wouldn't have swapped it for a second.
Wonderful things happened to me - I met my husband, I got invited to previews and premieres, I was asked to do fashion shoots and front covers of magazines. You've just got to embrace it and do the best you can.
For me, to be on television and not be afraid of making a mistake is freeing.
Every morning, I have a coffee to wake up my system, but I don't think you should eat just because it's a meal time, so I often won't have breakfast until late morning.
Usually, I'm asleep by midnight.
I'm up at the crack of dawn. If I'm filming, then I'll wake at 5 A.M. so that I can get on set and made up before the cameras start rolling.
I was brought up in the East End, and if a man was inappropriate in a bar, you'd throw your drink over him.
I was appearing on 'Top of the Pops' when I was in my mid-thirties or something. It was fantastic! But it was the weirdest thing, I'll admit. Was I me? Was I Angie Watts? Was I me as Angie? I didn't have a clue, but I was having enormous fun all the same.
