Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.

It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didnt tell him that when we worked together on Another Me.

If you believe, you can achieve - thats my motto!

Relationships are temporary, friendships are forever! Unless they sleep with your boyfriend!

Im a Rihanna, Beyonce kind of person.

Life happens.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.