I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

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.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

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.

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.