I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

Here sir, the people govern.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.