I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.