You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

My colleagues are my colleagues, my friends are my friends. It's never been male or female.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

I'm really open to everything.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.