With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

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.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

I was terrible at school.