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There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.

If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn't watch TV. I wasn't exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.