I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.