You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.