You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.
Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
I'm an entrepreneur and a businesswoman and I do a lot of different things besides my work on television and people probably don't know that about me.
When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.
That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.
I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.
I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
