I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other..

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other ge….

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom..

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporation….

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference..

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for..

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are ….

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women..

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited..

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of ….

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap..

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and ….

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you hav….

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me..