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" Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer. "

" As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it. "

" At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive. "

" Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss. "

" Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing. "

" For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out. "

" Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid. "

" Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case. "

" I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?' "

" I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug. "

" I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock. "

" I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl. "

" I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target. "

" I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower. "

" I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that. "

" I like to believe that we all pray to the same god. "

" I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person! "

" I love Africa. "

" I love doing a film with a new bunch of people. "

" I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it. "

" I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director. "

" I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now. "

" I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art. "

" I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people. "

" I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond. "

" I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop. "

" I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion. "

" I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that. "

" I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day. "

" I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer. "

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