The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.