Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale ….

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 t….

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I….

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act..

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

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-….

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

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressi….

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone..

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

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I sti….

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And….

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for….

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

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..

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting..

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

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing ch….

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 ….

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