Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

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 don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.