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

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

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

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.