"When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief."

"I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything."

"Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts"

"On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things."

"I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix."

"I'm a very good sleeper."

"I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened."

"To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it."

"I love movies where people see the world from a different angle."

"I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors."

"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art."

"When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for."

"That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses."

"If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping."

"I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!"

"I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!"

"I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life."

"I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word."

"I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts."

"I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable."

"Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat."

"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."

"Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once."

"Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle."

"I do think imperfection's underrated."

"I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up."

"It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying."

"I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened."

"I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock."

"Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else."

"I always feel better after a good scream."

"His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall."

"Be yourself. No one else can."

"I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down."

"Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated."

"You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that."

"Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?"

"Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?"

"I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession."

"For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want."

"I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually."

"I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish."

"My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen."

"The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do."

"As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out."

"I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30."

"I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything."

"I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting."

"Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh."

"When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped."