When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

I do find it extraordinary that men are so prepared to pay for your dinner here. That simply never happens in England. When I first got together with Len, I couldn't understand why it seemed like he was always trying to get into my side of the car. He was holding the door open for me! I don't know what you teach American men in school here, but you have to keep it up, because it's extremely charming.

I have a husband who literally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?