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I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.
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It's so nice when you go on to a job and you've worked with someone before.
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Watching 'Morvern Callar' was a game changer for me.
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When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.
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I don't know if it's the way I've been brought up or if it's because I spend so much time away that I appreciate being at home so much.
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I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.
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I'm really into boots.
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I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.
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I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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I feel, in drama, you don't need to be fed everything. Even though sometimes when you watch, you want to know what happened and you want to see it, I feel like sometimes it's so much stronger to see the effects that those actions have had.
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A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.
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I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.
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You have to be confident enough to pick yourself up and go to 30 meetings and be told no every time and not take that to heart.
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I think everything happens for a reason.
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I am beyond excited to be working with the BBC as part of the cast of 'Thirteen.'
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There's something refreshing about going into filming and not brushing your hair, letting your toenails chip, drawing darker circles under your eyes.
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I think, in history, we often see a false representation of women. The men are always the successors and, supposedly, of their own merit, which I don't believe to be to true.
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Yoga really destresses me.
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Liverpudlians have an amazing sense of humour, and they're very loyal and warm. All my family and friends are there, so when I'm not filming, I like to go back and catch up with everyone. We're a very close family.
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I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.
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As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.
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I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.
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A movie that makes me cry every time is 'Billy Elliot.' That scene where he's dancing in the hall, and his dad walks in. And the first time his dad can see how amazing he is dancing, but he's so conflicted with kind of his own feelings towards it. Oh, it's so emotional.