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

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.

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!

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus!

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?

Change is inherent in every form.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.