I can't stand watching myself on TV.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the UK. I'd been in the film Breaking and Entering - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to LA, during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing Gossip Girl, and I auditioned, and things came together.

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.