My husband keeps me really honest.
When you’re onstage, you’re acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it’s like a wave.
I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.
I’m always without sleep. I’ve got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
I love theatre – it’s where I started – and I’ve directed a play myself. I’m not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I’m always thinking, ‘Surely this must be my last film.’
I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.
To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn’t, better luck next year!
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
I’ve reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
Please, I need you to save my ass.
I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
It’s not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it’s been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
We change people’s lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let’s face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.
You can’t be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it’s not a concern of mine.
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
I’m incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
I’m not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn’t do, but I know what works for me.
You can’t really achieve anything in three years.