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

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would be ostracized. The rigid societal conventions meant that it was difficult to live outside of them.

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.