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'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

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.