
I think it's very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don't know.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.