I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

I love going into a country and just blending.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.