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

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

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 can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

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

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.