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.

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

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.