I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

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.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Your ego does not need to be crushed, it needs to be redeemed.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

You must always aim for further growth.