I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

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