I'm Always Without Sleep. I've Got Two

Everyone Gets Obsessed With Anti-aging But I'd Rather Look As Good As I Can At The Age I Am.

We Talked About Trying To Create An Image That Would Somehow, To An Audience, Create The Sense Of Awe, Wonder And Shock That The Troops Must Have Felt That Their Monarch - And A Female Monarch - Went To The Frontline Of Battle And Was Prepared To Lay Down Her Life. This Speech Is So Well Known And Has Been Done In Virtually Every Version Of The Events Of Elizabeth's Life.

It's Part Of My Job. You Can't Play Veronica Guerin Sounding Like This. It Just Wouldn't Wash. But What I Find Fascinating About Doing An Accent - Unless It's A Farce - Is That It's Not Slapped On.

As An Actor I Suppose You're Constantly Observing. I Don't Sit In Restaurants Making Notes, I Don't Live My Life In Order To Then Feed It Into My Work.

I Think You're Peripatetic When You Work In This Industry. My Husband And I Are Assuming The Role Of Co-artistic Directors At The Sydney Theatre Company In 2008. But As Long As The Film Industry Will Have Me, I Will Have It.