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.

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.

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

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

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.

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.