I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.
The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim. Amazing, obviously. She's been my idol since I re-enacted 'Titanic' and fell in love with Leo. And it's a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
What's important is to listen before you react.
I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.
We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that's not how Hollywood works.
If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.
Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
We tend to kind of write women out of history.
Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.
There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.
Everybody's story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it's not easy... you have to offer yourself; you can't expect someone to get you.
My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.
Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.
