We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know.

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

You give, actually, what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. That's what you can give; it's not so much about "acting" in a sense of playing something that's very different to you.