I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.