If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

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

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

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'.