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Acting
"I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong." - CTV.ca, August 2009 "It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus." - Arena, November 2008 "I hadn't acted much. I'd been in school plays, but I wasn't a drama-school kid and my family aren't performers." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008 [On wanting a career like Kate Winslet's] "She makes blockbusters; she makes weird movies; she still has a family and she seems really grounded." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008 "I just want to do good work. If it’s shot in Hungary, if it’s shot in Russia, if it’s shot in America, if it’s shot in England, you just want to do something you can stand up and say I’m proud of it." - Fresh Online, October 2008 "I won the lottery because I didn't know I would love this so much and I'm so lucky to have gotten the chance." - CTV.ca, October 2008 Fashion
"I went through a real punk stage—I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin." - Instyle, October 2008 "I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things." - Irish Times, January 2009 "If I leave my hair, I look like Pocahontas, so I've been known to use eight different products at once just to make it do anything." - Instyle, October 2008 "I have to keep my hair long for my role in Merlin, but because I know I can't cut it, all I want to do is shave it off!" - Instyle, October 2008 "I shop like a man." - Irish Times, January 2009 Merlin
[On Merlin] "Every now and again I’m standing in a corridor asking myself 'Is this real?' If you had told me that every day I get into this dress and watch sword fighting and dragons, I'd have thought you were mad." - BBC, September 2008 "I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist." - BBC, September 2008 "I was so scared. I was like, 'They're going to re-cast me, they're going to re-cast me. I've got to do a good job' and I walk in and Giles from Buffy is there. I was just like 'Oh my God, oh my God.'" - CTV.ca, August 2009 "I always think of Morgana as the ticking time bomb of the show." - CTV.ca, August 2009 "One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place." - SciFiChick, August 2009 "My favorite scenes are always the scenes I do with Colin." - SciFiChick, August 2009 Miscellaneous
"I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche." - Arena, November 2008 "The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008 "I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008 "I wasn't the biggest fan of college because I was so desperate to get started on life. I went for four years but I never really physically went. I'd turn up to hand in my essays but that was about it." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008 |