"I find Hollywood really toxic"

"I'm not famous," she insists. "If you asked an actor who I was they'd know, but if you stopped Mr Bloggs in the street they wouldn't have a clue. I don't ever get recognised or anything like that. Literally never."

"I pretty much think that the unconscious rules," she says. "It's a way of interpreting the world where everything is subtextual and there is no such thing as a mistake. If you lost your house keys it means you didn't really want to go home."

"The main thing you need in films is charisma."

"I did hardly any acting at school and I don't come from a theatrical family - my father invents medical equipment. But at Cambridge I felt certain from the start that my acting was something to be continued."

"I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor."

"You have to turn off your head and use your heart and instinct, definitely..."

"I have more problems deciding little things like with a menu, I have a real problem deciding what to eat. It sounds silly but it gets exasperating for those around me. If I see two pens, one with red top and one with blue top, I start to invest great importance in what if I got the red one, what if I got the blue one? It sounds neurotic, and it kind of is. I just waste so much mental space trying to make decisions."

"I can feel guilty about anything."

"My theory is, working actors have got no right to grumble..."

"I don't think anyone really cares what I think. Nor should they, more to the point"

"I once made the mistake of telling a reporter I always wanted to be a barrister. And I got a pitying look, followed by an article along the lines of, ‘The poor little tart thinks she could get a proper job"