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.

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.

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.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Suffering is universal.

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.