There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.