“The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.”

I enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you’re away a lot. If you’re dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.

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

If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.

It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.

It’s an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: ‘Wow, I’m not the person I thought I was. I’m in the middle of something and I can’t actually deal with it.’

All through my life what I’ve loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me – which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn’t do it.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.