I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

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 feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

You’re insane, ” I told him, and stood up to dress.He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, “Insane for you, my love.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.