Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.