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

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.

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 love when people become obsessed with Downton.

I am a hopeless romantic.

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

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.