Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'