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.

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

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

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

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

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.

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