Julia Ormond

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.