I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

No, absolutely not. No, no, no. You know, [there's always] new things, too. Everyone's [wearing] skulls, and all that. But no. Nothing.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.