I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.

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.

We'll always have art, darling.