I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and I realised that I really hated her. How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.

I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits.