Quotes from Tamsin Egerton

I'm a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it's like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel it. I put my moisturiser on top of that, and I just know that it's going in more. I can feel it working, and I love it.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

The truth is, I'm not body confident.

Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'

I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.