“Throughout my life, I’ve been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.”

I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.

Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.

If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.

Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.

For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.

You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.

I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.

I used to reenact ‘Titanic’ all the time.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Days when I have things to say but have no idea how to pit them out there – are the most annoying.

I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.

It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it’s pretty obvious when you’re in a kitchen and when you’re not.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.