“I don’t want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.”

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.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.

I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that’s somebody I have to play.

I think that when you smell good, you feel good. You know how when you’re in a room and someone else smells good, you’re like, ‘Where is that?’

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.