What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you.
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.
Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.
You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.
You just never know who's going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat.
I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.
I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?'
Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile.
You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage.
I do know that the key to anything good is feeling relaxed and free. That's the main thing that you can offer yourself as an actor.
I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.
I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.
I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.
If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty.
When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.
I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side.
Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.
As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?
