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.
I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
I'm very good at forgetting people.
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.
If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.
I was terrible at school.
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
