We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and I need to be warmed up gently, it's always Ella Fitzgerald or Nina Simone.

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.