My colleagues are my colleagues, my friends are my friends. It's never been male or female.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration.

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.