At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, ‘No, that’s what people want, so that’s what is given.’ But it’s not in your control. It’s just what happens to you,...

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I’m never going to...

I have a Calvin Klein travel handbag with four compartments that fold up. You can keep your tickets, passport and documents all together.

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I’m just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.

No More Avengers! There’s nothing new to get out of it – I want to go forward, not backward.

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I’m often sticking my neck out on...

There’s no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There’s no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job....

For sure, you don’t believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane – wacky. If you don’t take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits....

They have – they do still hit me occasionally, and it’s an overwhelming grief for what – even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is...

I’m the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else – and it wasn’t – before I told them. So I didn’t tell them, until for a week,...

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

The old argument that the working class won’t enter higher education because they are afraid of getting into debt is patronizing.

I didn’t go into a depression where I stopped. No. I had what I called my days of grief, and they got further and further apart.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.

I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way....

Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

I’m very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

And I think one can forgive, and I don’t think one can forget. I’m not sure what stage I’ve reached about my marriage yet, but I know I’m past it.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That’s what directors are, they’re storytellers because they’re directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

You’ve got to sing sometimes like you don’t need the money. Love sometimes like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance, dance, dance like nobody’s watching. It’s got to come from the heart if...

I don’t know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that’s how long a movie shoots.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

I’ve travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you’re in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.