If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.