The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.