I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.
I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.
Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exist anymore. It's a real shame. There's great auteurs that create small movies, but it's really hard for anyone to see them, and for them to make any sort of money, or for them even to be made in the first place.
Every actor turns everything round to their character.
You never have a consistent job as an actor, so you're always looking for the next thing. It's defined by the opportunities that come across your doorstep at the time. A career is totally in the hands of fate, in terms of how those opportunities arise.
In Britain, we haven't got enough money to make these long-running shows. We always do little mini ones. You have more control as an actor over what you want to do with it. On these you drive yourself mad trying to know what's going to happen, because the writers don't.
To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.
I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.
I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.
I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.
I admire the brazen qualities in people.
I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.
With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.
What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.
I'd love to direct again.
I'm not very good at lying.
I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.
I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic. I fail to get anything that way.
I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.
We'll always have art, darling.
I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.
I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.
I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.
The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up.
