Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

It's great to be queen!

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.