You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.