Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

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

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.