Anna Friel

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.