I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.
I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.
Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.
My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.
I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.
Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.
Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.
The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.
