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

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.

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.

It's very hard to do when you put trust on others capability more than yours.

I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep talking about something else.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.