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

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 am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

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