The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

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.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

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

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.