Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you cant beat it.

Its nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

I think...I shall call ye Beauty, for I shall be yer beast.

And they all have pretty children, And the children go to school, And the children go to summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in boxesAnd they come out all the same.

Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.