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

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'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

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.

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

Typography is what language looks like.

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

Temerity is not always successful.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.