A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.
I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.
The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.
I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.
There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.
My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.
Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.
I cry when I feel moved by incredible generosity or a connection to someone. We spend so much of our lives being separated. It's the relief of connection that produces the tears.
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.
I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
