It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.