All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

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.

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.