I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.