The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

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

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.