Quotes from Holliday Grainger

Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well. I'd love to be able to do a mixture.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

I'd love to do more independent films.

I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.