I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.