Gina McKee

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.