I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

What are we fighting for?. We bring nothing into the world, we will take nothing into the grave.

And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

I can't live without it. I'm on HuskerPedia™ every day.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.