I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.