I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.