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.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

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