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

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

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."

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

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