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

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

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.

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

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

My body is a baby machine.