• "The filmmakers were obsessed with having someone skinny. I just thought, why didn't they get
someone like Kate Bosworth, if that's what they wanted? An actress like that wouldn't worry about whether
or not the political ideas were being sensitively or subtly dealt with. They'd do the job, smile and look
pretty on the cover of Teen Vogue. There I am, 135 pounds and trying to make art! I was so wrong for it!"
On the project Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights
• "I [showed] my tits and teeth. I'm useless at it. About 40 per cent of success as an actor is now
based on whether you're good at being interviewed and how you conduct yourself. And I'm really bad at that."
On the Vanity Fair premiere
• "I date nothing but older men. I've reached a stage in my life where I've started to worry whether
it's a fetish or not. What did I find out? I suppose that the only real effect of ageing is deep cynicism
- that, and you are maybe a little more comfortable with yourself."
On her dating habits
• "I do think the Olympics are a curiously male obsession. Who can run the fastest from here to here?
You know what I think? Who gives? Because if you're not running to catch a bus or running to buy me a bunch
of flowers, I don't care."
Her thoughts on the Olympics
• "The cast were asked to do some publicity shots for Daniel Deronda. I was corseted in full period-style
gown, and we had to stand in this room, with make-up to make sure we weren’t sweating, for about twenty minutes.
Eventually they said: ‘You can go.’ And I walked out of this room and just fell down a flight of stairs, landing
in a pile of dust at the bottom. You know you are committed to work when you fall over and you think: ‘Oh no, my
dress!"
On working on Daniel Deronda
• "It doesn’t matter how good you are [as an actor]; if you can’t talk to the director, that really affects
the result. I think I’m quite gregarious and chatty, and I think that really helps. I’m not sure whether it’s made
me a better actress, but I think it’s helped my career."
On her career
Atonement
Amazing Grace
Angel
As You Like It
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