I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.