When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.