I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

I just want people to focus on the performance.