I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

The great move mountains

The things I can't do are the things I have yet to learn.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

The work of creation is never without travail.