I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.
I like gardening.
My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.
I love being a punter.
To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.
Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.
The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.
My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.
But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.
With everything in my life, I don't think too much ahead.
I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.
I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.
I can't, for example, Google myself, because I am very sensitive.
But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.
There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.
I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.
I never suffered anti-Semitic racism because no one thought I was Jewish.
I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.