I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

I just look better in simple black things.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.