As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.