Quotes from Karla Crome

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

I'm a bit awkward.

I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.

Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think 'I hope I don't let them down.'

I don't think comedic parts come naturally to me.

The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.

I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.

I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.

I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it.

The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.

I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn't see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn't sit well with my conscience.

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.

I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.

Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.

People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.

Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true.

As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.

It's important to find your tribe. If you can find people you can share ideas with, people you're mutually stimulated by it helps you move forward.

I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.

I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point when someone who's not you turns around and validates your work it gives you a lot of confidence.