Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Being me right now is sort of amazing.