If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?'

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.'

I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.