Emily Watson

“You have to play the logic of a character.”

“I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!”

“And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.”

“When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.”

“I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.”

“I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.”

“The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.”

“My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.”

“During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.”

“I always think I am going to do my best.”

“I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.”

“Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.”

“In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.”

“As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.”

“It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.”

“I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.”

“Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.”

“I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.”

“Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.”

“I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.”