I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

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 think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.

I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.