The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.