I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.

I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.