You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get..

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too..

I am a hopeless romantic..

I've been told I make a very good brew..

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere lik….

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing..

I really enjoy auditions anyway because I think that even if you come out of them, and you go in once and it never goes anywhere, there is something ….

On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. I….

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears..

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money..

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations..

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place ….

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ba….

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever..

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you..

I don't know if I'm so righteous..

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them..

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible..

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool..

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they'….

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18..