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 was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

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.

My body is a baby machine.

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

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

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!