Quotes by Emily Watson

I really didn't know what to expect and when you first turn up and there are trailers as far as the eye can see, and hundreds and hundreds of PAs, but actually when you get down to it, most of my scenes were with Ralph Fiennes who is the most real, proper actor's actor, you could hope to work with. And I enjoyed it very much indeed.

I thought it was time to jump into that Hollywood mainstream and see what the temperature was. And it was warmer than I expected.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.