- [on playing Edgar Allan Poe's lover in The Raven (2012)] I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the life of a poet. When I read the script, I thought, "This is just amazing"-- because it wasn't indulgent. It allowed itself to have a thrilling aspect.
- [on cultural differences between the US and UK] You know, we're divided by a common language, even though we're meant to have been from the same place. There is a definite shift when I get on the plane and I land. It's very Puritan in America, and it's a different culture in England and much more European in its belief system. In the United States, it's quite strict.
- I'm a girl's girl. I love to hang out with boys--I've got brothers--but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality television and popular culture . . . Did going to Oxford and reading "Paradise Lost" change that? No.
- [on performing nude] I don't have any aversion to flesh or showing it. I think if you've got flesh then it should be shown. Besides, you limit yourself if you are against all that because it's part of the job really.
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