As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.

I've worked with so few female directors.

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.

Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people want to say, 'Religion's the only reason that man has had any trouble at all,' but you know what? World War I and World War II were not fought because of religious reasons.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.

You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.