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" I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things. "

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" I really like research. "

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

" 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. "

" That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did 'Lord of the Rings,' it was something I wasn't quite prepared for, I didn't know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I'm better at dealing with that now - a lot better. "

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

" 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. "

" I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure. "

" I worry about my sides. I worry where everything goes. I worry that I'm going to be the leak. I give all my scripts back! "

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

" When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" 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. "

" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "

" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "

" In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket. "

" 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. "

" Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't. "

" When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun. "

" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "

" I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television. "

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

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

" In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts. "

" The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people. "