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

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

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.