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.

If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.