"The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008
"I wasn't the biggest fan of college because I was so desperate to get started on life. I went for four years but I never really physically went. I'd turn up to hand in my essays but that was about it." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008
"I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music (...) I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008
"I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche." - Arena, November 2008
"I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist." - BBC, September 2008
(On Merlin) "Every now and again I’m standing in a corridor asking myself 'Is this real?' If you had told me that every day I get into this dress and watch sword fighting and dragons, I'd have thought you were mad." - BBC, September 2008
"I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things." - Irish Times, January 2009
"I went through a real punk stage—I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin." - Instyle, October 2008
"I hadn't acted much. I'd been in school plays, but I wasn't a drama-school kid and my family aren't performers." - Tribune Magazine, December 2008
"I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong." - CTV.ca, August 2009