I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Having a goal and having a dream are different.

A relationship is built on trust and faith, and not on rules.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.