I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey.

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

Most of my stuff comes from Eloquii, Torrid, Lane Bryant - even Target!

I taught preschool previously, so I was like, 'Oh, I can teach little kids to act, and I can go back home.'

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.