I'm as famous as I want to be.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.