I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

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

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying when someone is fuming and talks in a very calm way. I always want people to shout at me if they're angry - it freaks me out that whole thing of, 'I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.'

I've been told I make a very good brew.

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.

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