Quotes from Rose Leslie

I'm doing a bit of theatre: I'm doing a Mike Bartlett play called 'Contractions.' I'm very, very happy and lucky to be going back to the stage.

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It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

My mum's maiden name was Dalglish, so I have Scottish blood in me.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

I like to think that I can run, but I remember once running up and down through different terrains while on set in Iceland, and I face planted.

'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.

I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

I'm pro-union and utterly hope that Scotland stays within the United Kingdom.

Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

I think it's important to change and not be associated with your character too much.

I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.