Julie Walters

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.