I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

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 don't know if I'm so righteous.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

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.

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