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Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

There's nothing very interesting about my life.

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.