I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My mum went into labour while she was watching The Nutcracker Suite in New York - apparently I was kicking like mad.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.