Helen Mirren

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.