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

I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

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

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.