I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.
I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is. ' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!. ' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.
I find it tricky to make plans.
It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?