I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.