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

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.

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.

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

What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

You can disagree, but it's a personal belittling attack which is beneath the dignity of the presidency.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.