Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

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

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

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

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