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

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

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

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

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