Actress

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

I think that there have definitely been points when I've had to fight to move my career in a different direction. I think, 2012, I did a few movies that touched on a darker side, and those are movies I'd been wanting to make and stories I'd been wanting to tell for a while. So I think it definitely takes work to move genres.

China's a big tea culture.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner.

I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never - death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It's so clearly placed there for you with divorce.

I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.

In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is right there.

Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.

I can't play a 65-year-old grandfather, as much as I'd like to.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

If I feel vulnerable, I get angry.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.

I do get a lot of facials because I think that when you don't extract, your pores inevitably fill up more. I believe that facials keep your pores smaller.

I'm an actress, so I hope I'm good at it.