I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.