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

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.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

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.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

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

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.