“If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.”

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.

I always feel like I’m the one with everything to prove.

I wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.

Half of my mum’s family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.

I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

I don’t have a problem with my body. I’m not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don’t think there’s any way round, I’m absolutely fine.

It’s a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it’s never going to be enough.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.

In the movie, you’re moving, you have personality, you don’t have to be great looking.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.

First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.