I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

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

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.