My mum is still totally rocking it. She's appearing in 'Game of Thrones,' which is massively cool.
She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.
I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.
If you aren't hot in Hollywood, you feel like you're in Siberia.
When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.
I know I'm not a hotly in-demand movie star, but I'm good at my job. And I want to keep working for the next 40 years.
I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.
I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.
Having brothers - I love that. They don't take any rubbish, and they beat you up if you've been misbehaving.
Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.
I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for a moment, you feel like a thing of beauty; it's changed my awareness of my body.
I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.
Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.
I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.
I really resent how expensive everything is in London.
My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
My pa is a brilliant, charming man. We go out and play together and laugh a lot. He has a twinkle in his eye.
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
