You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

When you play someone as terrifyingly well-known as Katharine Hepburn, it's a team effort.

and for casting me. He cast me on instinct, not with any concern to box office, so I thank him eternally.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them. [On models]