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" I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything. "

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" I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back! "

" Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable. "

" Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family. "

" Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. "

" Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them. "

" I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. "

" I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters. "

" My parents split up when I was young, and they are still good friends. I think it's often projected that these things have to be so acrimonious. It's so often not the case. "

" People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something. "

" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "

" It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. "

" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "

" Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't. "

" When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee. "

" As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent. "

" It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. "

" I love buildings that aren't purpose-built. "

" There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it. "

" You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally. "

" Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while. "

" I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America. "

" I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women. "

" The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people - and the energy level is great. "

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" Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby! "

" You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does. "