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

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

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

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.

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.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.