I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.