Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.