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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'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.
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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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You are what you think. I really believe that. And I don't think you ever stop doubting yourself.
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Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.
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I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.
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I've played a lot of untalented people.
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I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.
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Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
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What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.
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I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.
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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.
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Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.
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As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.
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I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.
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I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.
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Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.
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I've always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don't believe it.
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My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
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My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.
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I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
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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.
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I'm not a model. I don't really think much about how I look. If I did, I'd go mad.
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