If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

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

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 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.