Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

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.

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

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!

Cayse you left a jagged hole.And I can' stand it any more.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.