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I just love people. I love them a lot.
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I love the idea of being an Aries.
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It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.
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I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and Richard Eyre on 'The Dresser.'
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I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.
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I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.
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We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.
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My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.
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I was always bossing my sister around.
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My hair has been so wrecked over the years by various things.
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You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.
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I think my natural home was always the stage.
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Love whoever you want to love.
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I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.
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The thing I really know is that I'm not a model. I'm an actress.
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I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.
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So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'
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When you see yourself on a 40-ft. screen. you go, 'Oh My God! I look so weird!'
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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?
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I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.
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I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.
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I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.
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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.'
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I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.