"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."
"I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?"
"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."
"People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate."
"I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress."
"Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting."
"Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys."
"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."
"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
"People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different."
"I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people."
"If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different."
"I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother."
"Movies make you immortal and ageless."
"In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'"
"It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents."
"You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you."
"I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief."
"After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two."
"I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel."
"I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am."
"I was terrible at school."
"I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do."
"I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way."
"I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully."
