Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.

When you do children's TV or one episode [guest] stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input.

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Fear or anxiety is a normal part of living. It’s the body’s way of telling us something isn’t right. It keeps us from harm’s way and prepares us to act quickly in the face of danger.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

War is a specific product of civilization.

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.