The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

I love working closely with people.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

It was so soon after I'd had my son and I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good... I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.