Southend Is A Dormitory Town For London.

I Am Quite Spiritual. I Believed In The Fairies When I Was A Child. I Still Do Sort Of Believe In The Fairies. And The Leprechauns. But I Don't Believe In God.

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

I've Always Found As An Actress That The Best Thing To Do In Film Or Tv Or Theater Is Just To Lose Yourself In It. Think Of The Story, The Character, The Worlds We're In, And Forget Everything Else.

I Think Every Woman In Our Culture Is A Feminist. They May Refuse To Articulate It, But If You Were To Take Any Woman Back 40 Years And Say, 'is This A World You Want To Live In?' They Would Say, 'no.'

My Parents Believed In Education And Economic Security, And I Thank Them For It. Because I Think That's Part Of What's Made My Life Stable. It Was Instilled In Me. You Have To Be Able To Pay Your Bills. You Do Not Get Into Debt. And I Never Have Been.