Rachel Weisz

If I’m just in dungarees, I don’t think I would intimidate anyone.

When I’m playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don’t, they’re lying. Everybody does, yeah. You don’t want to worry about it. You have someone listening out to check that you’re not straying.

There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet; that’s what gets me pretty upset.

I don’t want to wear high heels because I can’t run around with my son. So, for real life, I like to be in jeans and nice-cut shirts. I appreciate good tailoring.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It’s a huge change and I’ve always wanted to spend time there. It’s like a more intense London, and everything’s up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food’s better.

I’ll take opinions from anyone from Jay-Z to a janitor, and I might value the janitor’s opinion more.

I love the ’80s. I’m obsessed with it. I love the hair and the people.

I don’t even have people’s phone numbers. I almost don’t want to have a girlfriend in this environment.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that’s why I’m so happy to be back!

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it’s not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

The girly movie I secretly love is Pippy Longstockings.

Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

When you’re acting, you’re a character and you can hide behind that. Music is who you are right then and there – you can’t hide.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

It’s the 2016 election, and it’s 2015 right now. So I don’t care until we’re in the same year as the thing that I’m supposed to care about.

We’re all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn’t let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn’t let us watch ‘The Flintstones’ if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of ‘The Honeymooners’. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old ‘Honeymooners’.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

[on El Chapo interview] I have a terrible regret.

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don’t ever save my contacts.