I'm not recognised much at all.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

I don't really get recognised very much.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

Never feel powerless when you have the power of love.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.