Shirley Henderson

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.