I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.