It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.