"I was an absolute little girl. I was completely girly and I was in the back yard and I had this fairy thing. I was always doing some sort of mystical fairy, far away land thing. I was a bit of a geek, and I would just geek out over Enid Blyton books, like "The Magic Faraway Tree", and stuff like that."

"I think it's up to you as an actor to decide what you are in a movie. You make your own bed, I think. If I wanted to show up to work and shorten my skirt and put a bit of extra lip gloss on before a take [...], then I could have done that. But you're not going to catch me doing that, because it's just not interesting."

"I'm becoming more aware that maybe you can't actually compare one film that you shoot to another. They are such strange creatures, films. There's such a funny alchemy, making a film, and each one is very specific and really its own world, which is I guess why it's so enjoyable and so fascinating. Each time it's just another job, it's another group of people, and it's a completely new environment."

(on her Transformers co-stars)
"I look back on the first big American movie that I shot, and I've only got good things to say about every one of the cast members. They were all just lovely to me. You hear these horror stories about how some actors are like problem children, but that was not the case. They were all extremely warm and generous."

(on her auditions for Transformers) "It's such a pop culture phenomenon in a way, they didn't release the script, so essentially when you're auditioning you're working just off of sight. You have no idea what the story is or what the character is or where it goes. So I didn't actually read the script until the fourth audition at which you have to sign a confidentiality agreement and you go and sit in a room and it's just a complete lockdown."

"I always just loved the escapism of cinema and I didn't understand that it was something that you could actually do. I didn't understand that film was actually an industry and that people had jobs in that. All I knew was that it was a make believe world an I wanted to be a part of that."

"I like the idea that you can’t be a better actor than you are a person. I hope that’s true; I hope you have to develop your life and relationships in the same way you develop your work. You know, with integrity."