I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.
I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.
It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.
Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.