Quotes from Naomie Harris

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid.

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.

For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.