My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

In Britain, we haven't got enough money to make these long-running shows. We always do little mini ones. You have more control as an actor over what you want to do with it. On these you drive yourself mad trying to know what's going to happen, because the writers don't.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.