I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them.

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.