I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

There is no love without suffering.

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American.