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've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

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

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.