I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.
In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations and you're put into circumstances that are physically sensuous. It sometimes requires much more of a physical talent.
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there.
I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.
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