It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.

I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

Truthfully, I'm incredibly shy, and I'm very awkward around boys.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.

Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.

The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.

I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.

I think Hollywood is interesting. As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

'Noah,' for me, wasn't a decision about taking on the Bible. It was about working with Darren Aronofsky.

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.