As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

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.