Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

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.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.