I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

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.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

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

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.