I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

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

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

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