As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

My colleagues are my colleagues, my friends are my friends. It's never been male or female.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.

A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune."Arabic proverb

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.