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.

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

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.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

One can't step into the river twice

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.