Emily Watson

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast. ”

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to. ”

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice. ”

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives. ”

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. ”

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. ”

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me. ”

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me. ”

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious. ”

I've always been creative, I think. ”