I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

I'm not recognised much at all.

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

I don't really get recognised very much.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

If there were no E.L.F, Super Junior wouldn't exist.