I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

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

I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.