You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.