I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

You write your life story by the choices you make.