I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.