I find that I get very lost in certain things and that it is hard to let go. Often, certain characteristics stay with you from characters.

Young actors are serious about their work and don`t take any time out from it. I`m very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I`ve done where I had a really good time.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

I`d always had a big thing for the `60s.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn`t work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It`s really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they`re actually really happy, good- natured people.

Every director is completely different.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

"Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you`re pregnant. I`ve got a film [War of the Worlds]. It`ll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it."

[When asked about her worst memory of being involved in the Lord of the Rings trilogy] "When we were doing reshoots, we spent a few days doing the scene where I`m fighting the Witch-King. It was hard coming back after a couple of years away and not being as fit as I had been then."

"I`m so fair that I didn`t go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn`t like you going in the sun, so I never did."