People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

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

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