I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.