You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you're working with someone who's in it, and you've been there and done it, but you're not in it anymore, you feel so good.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.