"There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks."
"I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily."
"'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along."
"Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic."
"Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic."
"My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets."
"I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again."
"'The Great Fire' is more what I'm used to - being in costume and make-up for a long time, trying to be 'period appropriate.'"
"There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors."
"It was a little bit strange as an English woman cast in 'Rebellion.' I read up about the events and, honestly, I knew very little about it to begin with it. It wasn't something that they cover in English schools at all."
"The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling."
"My heritage is Scottish and a lot of Irish, too."
"I love 'The Goonies!'"
"I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it."
"It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time."
"I'm a recycling obsessive."
"People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general."
"I don't think acting's difficult. It's not like learning to walk on your hands."
"I was a very fat baby."
"I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats."
"It's good for an actor to have, well, a big gob."
"Basically, less is more when it comes to film."
"It takes one heck of a lot of energy to be an actor-director - a rather terrifying prospect but a challenge I would definitely relish in the future, given the chance."
"My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over in the end credits of her brilliant creation 'Girls.'"
