I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

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

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.