With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
My life is European.
I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
My body is a baby machine.
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
