Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

We seldom look up to the person

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!

I have nothing to do with Russia.

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.