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

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

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

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

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

It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.