In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

I came out of the womb wearing make-up!

If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.

I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.

We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

If my husband's going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.