Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

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