When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.