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.

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.

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

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.

Love is the strength of my soul.

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

When at night you cannot sleep talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I love the concept of community energy.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor