I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

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

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

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.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

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

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