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

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.

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.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

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

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