Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's bigger than me. She's on a different level of performance that I have never done.

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

We will never get it under control if we are selective about who gets to survive.