I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.
When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.
Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.
I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.
I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.
I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.
I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.
I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.
I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.
It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
