I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.