I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. The minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. And no one calls you up the next day to say, 'So sorry you didn't win,' or 'You looked gorgeous - nothing. If you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.

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.

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.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.