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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.