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" I love buildings that aren't purpose-built. "

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" Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. "

" I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected. "

" I really like research. "

" In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important. "

" I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. "

" There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. "

" England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! "

" I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did. "

" I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career. "

" Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby! "

" I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America. "

" It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters. "

" I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour. "

Unpredictability

" People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something. "

" I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "

" Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them. "

" I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows. "

" I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything. "

" If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. "

" I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think. "

" I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not. "

" That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that. "

" I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters. "

" You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star. "

" Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read. "

" As your career goes on, you get to flex your brain a little more and play characters that are stronger and more intelligent. "

" I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me. "

" Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school. "