I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.