I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.