I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

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 do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.

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

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.