I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.
I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is. ' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!. ' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog.
Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.
When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.