Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It`s a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. Not to put too fine a point on it, there`s something about the shame that goes with sexual exploitation, deviance, whatever. As a woman, having a baby psychologically erases it all from your body. And that, for me, was incredibly important.

God, yeah, I`m good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That`s me!

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it`s not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

I don`t put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take. What is lovely is that I`ll get sent a small movie, and you know that by virtue of me being involved they get their money and that`s fantastic.

It was hysterical. We wanted to make it naughty and fun. When the camera stopped rolling, it was hard to stop laughing. - about her love scene with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)