I'm very pragmatic.
When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.
When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.
I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.
I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.
People think I'm totally crackers.
I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.
People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
I've always thrown like a girl.
I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.
Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
I've worked with so few female directors.
I've always worked very hard.
I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.
I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.
