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

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

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

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.