As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.