The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.