English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty that is great, and they'll go to any length to get it. The English are used to working within consistently small, low-budget things and think, I mustn't waste their time.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.