I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

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.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

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.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.