Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

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.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.