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

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

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 love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

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

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.