I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

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 Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all incredibly beautiful and there were statues of them everywhere, which is the equivalent of magazines, or whatever, today. And they were fallible, which is different from being mono-, you know, Jewish or Islam (where) you have the infallible, monotheistic God.