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

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

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

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 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.

Evil is evil.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.