There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.
My husband keeps me really honest.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.
I'm very fast.
Every director works differently.
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.
I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
