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

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

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

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

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

" When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week. "

" 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. "

" Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed. "

" The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know? "

" My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself. "

" I love Africa. "

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

" 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've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile. "

" 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 was too much of an innocent when I went to university. "

" 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. "

" When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. "

" I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. "

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

" Make-up is an extension of your clothes. "

" It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. "

" There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men. "

" The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't. "

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

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

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