The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.