Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.
One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.
When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?'
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.
I am a person. I am not a soap opera.
What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.
I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.
Jim Cameron is a feisty man and a perfectionist, but also absolutely brilliant.
In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.
I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'
Jane Campion is a tough director.
Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.
