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" When I was younger, I played a lot of upper-class English girls. Then I came to America, and everyone was like, 'She's very believable as trailer trash.' "

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" When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American. "

" I love independent films. I love going to see them. I love being a part of them because it kind of feels like 'all for one and one for all.' It can be really challenging but also really rewarding because sometimes you have to do so much stuff in a day, but I like that challenge, and you make such amazing friends. "

" I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking. "

" I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale. "

" I've never been scared of snakes. I'm really, truly arachnophobic - I hate spiders - but snakes have never freaked me out. I think they're really beautiful. "

" When you sign up to a film, you sign up to everything that's in the script. I really believe in that. "

" I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. "

" I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush. "

" I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that; I think it's gonna be very cool. "

" I love going to the movies; I grew up going to the movies. I didn't really watch TV, growing up, other than weird cartoons like 'Beavis & Butt-Head.' "

" I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it. "

" I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it? "

" Watching something like 'Orange is the New Black' - the development of the characters is amazing. Or 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mad Men' - those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that's a pretty magic thing. "

" That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment. "

" I had this imaginary world where fairies were my friends. If you told six-year-old Juno that she'd one day play a Disney fairy, she'd totally freak out. "

" My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.' "

" I love the idea of playing women I think I'm going to learn from. "

" I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. "

" I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket. "

" I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving. "

" I love Kings of Leon. "

" As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking. "

" But, I love making independent films. I love it! You create a family, and you sweat, you bleed, you cry, you shout, you laugh and you hug. It's such an extraordinary experience, making independent films. "

" There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about. "

" What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud. "

" It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really. "

" I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it. "

" On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes. "

" There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships. "

" For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character. "