The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

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The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

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different people

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

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petite fighter bits

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

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able acting choices

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

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appreciate expectations would-be

I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

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extroverts saws thinking

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

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feminist able

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

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being-yourself mother trying

I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt like a different technique. We were very true to the lines, and there was something quite formal and almost theatrical about it.

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technique different done

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

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fashion choices decision

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

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hobbies scripts reading

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

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actors home thinking

I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."

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hard-times trying book

Now we live in a time where the public and the private are completely fused and there isn't such a great distinction. We know our private lives are constantly made public. With Facebook and Twitter there isn't such a desire, it feels, to keep things private.

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desire

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

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single-women want world

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

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divorce growing-up thinking

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

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joyce virginia thinking

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

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growing-up character children

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

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being-true feels believe

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

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pressure interesting thinking

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

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thinking