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

I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.

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.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

I love that country [Israel].

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.

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