I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

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.

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.

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.

Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for we would be no longer who we are.

I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books.

The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others.

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent.

What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.