I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.