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My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

I love changing the way I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

I've aged, but I don't think I've grown up.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

I always feel better after a good scream.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I do think imperfection is underrated

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

There is no normality in life.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the 'f' word.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

Be yourself. No one else can.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up ... part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

I'm a very good sleeper.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.