I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.