I Don't Share Lots Of

Being Me Right Now Is Sort Of Amazing.

When I Was Doing Shakespeare And I Had Spent A Lot Of Time And Effort In Trying To Become A Great Shakespearean Actress. That Was How I Started My Career, Was In The Theater Doing Shakespeare. And My Ambition Was To Be A Great Classical Actress. That Was What I Wanted More Than Anything. So, I Really Pursued That In The First Four Years Of My Career. And It Was An Uphill Struggle. It Really Was. Shakespeare's Difficult And Shakespeare In A Big Theater Is Even More Difficult. So, Anyway, It Was A Struggle For Me.

My Dad's Russian. My Mother's English. I Would Say My Bottom Half Is Russian.

I'm A Naturist At Heart. I Love Being On Beaches Where Everyone Is Naked. Ugly Young People, Beautiful Old People, Whatever. It's So Unsexual And So Liberating.

English Actors Feel Vaguely Apologetic For Being There At All. American Actors Know That The Most Important Thing Is To Get One Take Out Of Fifty That Is Great, And They'll Go To Any Length To Get It. The English Are Used To Working Within Consistently Small, Low-budget Things And Think, I Mustn't Waste Their Time.