As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.

It is important to be conscious of the message that you're putting out there. It takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie to the screen. I do feel a certain element of responsibility to say something worth saying with it, as well as entertainment.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.