I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
Successful films are very dangerous things.
If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
I'm very lazy!
I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
I never raise my voice!
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
