Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.