"I`ve got this idea that who you play in the nativity relates to who you are in life. When I was four, I was Mary. But I wasn`t a lovely ethereal Mary, I was a right bossy cow. I stopped the play in the middle to tell Joseph he was doing it all wrong. So that`s me... And I`ve got this best friend who was so bitter about never being Mary. And everyone else, everyone you meet, always says: "Oh, I was the Angel Gabriel. The Messenger. Never Mary or Joseph..." Have you noticed?? So yeah, who you are in the nativity, it determines, you know, your..."

"I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful, I don`t want my life to change. I really don`t want to be a movie star."

"I cringe when people are like... (adopts the deep, proclaiming, self-conscious tones of the precious thespian.)... I am going to be an actress! Which is really probably quite mean of me. But it would have made me uncomfortable to actually think or say I wanted to do it... So I didn`t. I fell into it, really. And then, once I was in it, I thought I`d try, at least give it a go, and see how it went."

"I don`t even really want to talk about how I hate LA. It`s so English to hate LA. I`d like to say I love it, but I don`t. It`s such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn`t spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they`re so crazy and wild and liberal and they`re not!"

"I`m ambitious, but not competitive. You`d drive yourself crazy if you were. You know, there are actually enough jobs out there for all of us."