If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.

When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.