I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.

When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.