I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.

I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.

If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.

I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.

I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I've always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.

I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

Mercedes for me is the strongest team.

That is something you can never explain, it is part of all sporting life. Anybody can have a bad day and they can have many good days.

My year with Ferrari was of incredible value to me. I learned a lot about all the technical aspects of the car and also how to improve my work with the engineers.

Many Formula One races last two hours, are really boring and nothing happens.

If you are a great guy with your competitors, with your colleagues, it is always good, even on the race track and off it.

I want to find a team that can give me a competitive car to win many more races and challenge for the championship.

I always had a good relationship with all my team-mates in my career.

I don't want to be the king, 'I don't need that, I want to race even without the helmet, I am the king.' I am not like that. I just want to make things better for the drivers and for the safety.

I talked to everyone. But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist. That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.

I am happy to start from zero, to create, to restart.

I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.

We always need to keep working to improve safety - not just the cars; the tracks and everything are very safe now.

My family is important to me. They have always been close to me during my career, victories and defeats, and the most difficult moments.

I'm pretty relaxed, trying to enjoy the races, trying to do the best I can in the car, trying to the give the best to the team, and that's the most important thing.

For sure working with Ferrari is a great pleasure. It's a great team, it's a great experience and it's a great dream as well to be there.

My son understands a lot and he's pushing me really hard. He always tells me 'you need to win, you need to be good.' He's happy to see that his father is racing and I think he understands step by step more about Formula One and he really likes it.

Everything can change pretty quickly in Formula One in two or three races.

I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.

A lot of things happen in a difficult way inside Ferrari in terms of pressure.

I think that if you are well-accepted by the other drivers and respected it is important.

Sometimes things don't happen in the way you want it to. But that's sport.

Sauber had a bad championship the year after they fired me and so if I had stayed it would have not been so good. Sometimes life does these things to you because it's the right thing. You think it's wrong, 'initially, but life proves different.

It is important to work to get the good result. If you have that nothing else is important.

There are a lot of good cars, good teams and good drivers.

I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.

My mother never watches the start of my races - because she fears for me.

The accident did not change my life, change the way I think, the way I work. For sure, it gave me even more experience. The biggest problem was my sight, I couldn't see with my left eye.

Playing dirty has never been part of my game.

Since he sold his team, Eddie Jordan has had nothing to do with F1 except for what he says in the press!

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

I know how to lose and I know how to win.

Positive things come out of even the most difficult times.

Ferrari is very political, at Ferrari everything is difficult. So if you win you have a lot of pressure and if you don't win you have even more.

When you're talking about proper competition, I think Formula E has good competition.

Just competing in the Brazilian GP is a dream for all Brazilian racing drivers. I remember sitting in the grandstands when I was a kid, watching Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet and even Rubens Barrichello. After that, to race there in Formula One is a feeling that is hard to explain.

When the media began reporting that I might return, I was touched by the response from so many fans who wanted to see me back in the sport. That was certainly a factor in the decision, so I'd like to thank the fans for their support. But, at the end of the day, when I received the call it was an offer I couldn't refuse. It was Williams!