I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

I've never met anybody who enjoys every moment of making a movie as much as Pierce Brosnan. He doesn't stress out too much, he is always in a good mood. And he has little rituals throughout the day, which he does with a lot of style - almost like he is celebrating life, not just the work. He has to have his special cup of tea, in nice china, not Styrofoam.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.