Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

Nothing is impossible, you simply just have to believe it.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.