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I may seem to have worn a lot of tights in films, but actually, those are just the films that have been most visible or worked best. I have worn jeans a lot, too, but those ones haven't tended to work so well.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist literature had its fan base then, but TV has given it an enormous reach.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.

The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

When you wake up, and you see that America has pulled out of the climate deal in Paris, that sends huge messages about putting coal before the planet.

I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

I am a twin, but my brother and I aren't identical, so it's not such a big deal. But when you share bunk beds and birthdays and a womb with someone, you have a special connection. It definitely feels different from the relationship I have with my other siblings - my twin and I are more connected. Jacob is a conservationist.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.