I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit..

My mom used to sell Avon when my mom was a kid for about three years, and so it was like the first make up I saw. And when I first found out about ma….

He [Daniel Craig] is mysterious, and I think that that's the thing Bond has to exude, that kind of mysterious edge. He draws you in, but he is also i….

I'm kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I'd just be chatting and they'd just pop it back….

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about..

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite..

It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the fil….

As my passion is theatre when I do a film I'm taking time out from my theatre career. So, I'm desperate to get back into the theatre. So, I have to m….

I was quite naughty at school..

My preference will always be theatre because it's where my heart lies and it's what I started with and eventually I want to direct it. It's where my ….

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats..

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental..

When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very pro….

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way..

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I w….

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!.

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things..

In London I'm out and about all the time. I walk everywhere, so people do recognise me and they've probably seen me before so they're not bothered an….

There is one scene where he is kissing up my back. It is really sexy and I didn't know he was going to do it. He started doing it and in the film you….

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't ….

I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself.