What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

I have been known to do a lot of glamorous, glossy songs in A-lister set-ups. This was unlike that. 'Blackmail' is a gritty film, so the song is also very different from what I have done before.

In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful, the terribly poor things... ' whereas from within, it's nothing like that. It's fantastic, it's glamorous, it's terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.

Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

I have decided to take on substantial roles. I'm even ready to take on roles which give prominence to glamour; I have absolutely no qualms in doing so.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

So far, I'm known for doing more commercial and glamorous roles. But I don't mind doing a short film.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

I've never really known what glamour is.

There's a downside to glamour and since I know that, I think that's why I have been able to stay grounded.

When I first became a journalist, people said, 'Oh, that must be interesting.' They saw it as slightly glamorous, slightly edgy. They wanted to know more.

I think the glamour industry, all over the world, does portray a version that is 'Photoshopped' - a picture that is not very realistic.

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

What we learned was that the collective glamour of a specialty store could sell a lot of merchandise.

I was never so attracted to the glamorous world. That never impressed me.