Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.
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.
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
