If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Money is a mechanism for control.

It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.

It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

Reality is a question of perspective.