I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

We'll always have art, darling.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

When you stop growing you start dying.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.