Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.
For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.
I'm very fast.
I love dressing up, although that doesn't mean necessarily on the school run.
Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.
It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.
I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.
I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.
Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.