You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

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.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

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

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.