When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

I'm not recognised much at all.

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

I don't really get recognised very much.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

❤ We must all find the spirit to try and help better humanity! We all have it inside us to contribute something to the cause of humanity!

Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately, And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky!

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

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