England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

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

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

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

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.