As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.