I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality..

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

It would be nice to really shed the corsets..

There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of..

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..

There is no normality in life..

I do think imperfection's underrated..

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

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me..

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

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolut….

Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion indust….

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

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I o….

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….

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

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….

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-….

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 ….

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum an….