I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

I didn't know about the Bond girl thing. I was approached very quickly, boom, boom, boom, it happened.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.