Nice Is The Worst Word.

You Already Feel Unsure Of Yourself, And Then You See Your Worst Fears In Print. It Really Knocked Me - Which Is Why, I Think, I Was Working, Working, Working, Because I Was Trying To Run Away From The Fact That I Thought I Couldn't Do It.

I Find It Quite Difficult On Studio Films Because There Are So Many Different Executives And Things Like That That You Have To Go Through, So Very Often Getting That Definitive Opinion Is Actually Quite Difficult.

It's Good To Know That Other People Think Differently, And That's What Makes The Characters Interesting.

I Made A Conscious Decision To Live My Life The Best Way I Could And That Meant To Publicise Myself As Little As Possible.

I Love Costume Dramas, I Love Performing In Them, Because In A Funny Kind Of Way, You Feel More Free. You Know About The Period, You Can Read The Books, You Can See The Paintings, But You've Never Actually Going To Know What It Was Like. You Can Kind Of Stretch Those Boundaries A Bit.