Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.

I am a hopeless romantic.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

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'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.