I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

There is no normality in life.

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.