I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.