My hair has been so wrecked over the years by various things.
I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.
When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'
What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.
Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'
I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.
I think my natural home was always the stage.
I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
I've been told that I have no filter.
As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!
I don't see the point of grumpy people.
I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.
I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.
I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.
Acting is a very weird job. But if you know you're an actor, you just have to do it. You can't do anything else.
Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.
My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.
So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'
When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?
I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.
