I find Hollywood really toxic.
In L.A., unless you’ve just won an Oscar or you’re Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing – anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It’s so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
When I’m playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don’t, they’re lying. Everybody does, yeah. You don’t want to worry about it. You have someone listening out to check that you’re not straying.
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It’s a huge change and I’ve always wanted to spend time there. It’s like a more intense London, and everything’s up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food’s better.
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.
You can never say you’re big – I don’t think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I’d had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
To me, there’s two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
Kourtney has a new therapist and a new bf and I don’t really know which one is this problem
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
I have no enabler bone in my body – not one. I’m sort of like, Oh, are you going crazy? I’ll be back in an hour.’
In my neighborhood if you’re too aggressive, you intimidate someone, they kill you. Or if you decide to be emotional and you start crying, you’re a victim. You know, the kid in the schoolyard that doesn’t want to fight always leaves with a black eye. You have to find a way to stay in the middle, somewhere where people just don’t mess with you because they know that you don’t have a problem with it if it goes there.
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
I’d probably say I’m very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever.
[on the harsh standards placed on women by Hollywood] It’s one of those endless competitions, but it’s like running a race toward nothing. “There’s no winning. You’re never going to win the thin race. You’re never going to win the pretty race. You’re never going to win the smart race. You’re never going to win the funny race. I just want to be the best version of myself I can be.
Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
