When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing..

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time..

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them..

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick..

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say..

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my….

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right s….

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have streng….

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straigh….

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I….

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants..

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It start….

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside..

Now we live in a time where the public and the private are completely fused and there isn't such a great distinction. We know our private lives are c….

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier..

"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have….

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her..

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains..

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home..

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is i….

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful..