I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

"The Invisible Woman" was about trying to show this conflict in [Nelly Ternan] woman truthfully, between her own identity, but also being in love with someone who I think made very high demands from her.

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

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.

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