My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
There's a real power in heels and a good dress.
I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.
I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.
I'm terribly, horribly shy.
Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.
