In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

I had an absolutely, extraordinarily unpleasant evening last night trying to get there, ... I had all kinds of plane problems . . . but I was very, very sorry not to be [there]. It was going to be the highlight of my summer.

Having had a child, the idea of doing a film and working those 14-hour days and being away from home is something that's very difficult as a concept,

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.