Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

I'm a great whittler. I can whittle a marshmallow stick really quickly. I don't think anyone whittles anymore, they should!

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

It's so surreal being here.

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.