At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
Films are just consumables.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.
It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
My body is a baby machine.
You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
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