I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it - there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world - it's a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?