I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of working all over the world. I've enjoyed a great degree of variety in the work that I've done. It's been quite unique.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.