As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.