The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

I think I am an adult.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.