Quotes

In soap you've got to be really top of your game, you don't get a rehearsal, and it's such a tight schedule, you're doing about 12 scenes a day.

We had a TV that ran off a battery when I was growing up. It would usually run out midway through a bloody movie, which then meant bedtime. So there's a lot of films out there I still don't know the endings of!

I was never the best, but I was the one who never gave up.

Nowadays everyone's a critic. I refuse to give negativity a platform. The judgement, the insensitive comments, the online bullying. It's out of control. I literally have four friends who I trust and I don't engage in social media. That's how I remain sane.

I was always more Shirley Valentine than a Marjorie Majors.

I wish people were kinder to each other.

I've experienced several incidents of inappropriate comments and actions towards me in my career, both sexually and mentally. I was told by a stage manager that he had masturbated over pictures of me. On another occasion I was groped by a crew member by the side of the stage. I turned to an older actress for support and she actually told me sternly to 'leave it' and not cause a scene, so I felt very alone and almost like I was perceived as being oversensitive when my gut instinct told me otherwise.

As much as I feel flattered by the sex symbol status given by the roles I've played on screen, I would like Habit (2017) to be the final one. There's something about knowing when to leave before the lights come on and for me, at 35, I'd like to now move away from playing the sexy siren or femme fatale who has a love scene. I have turned down a couple of big movie offers this year which featured sexy parts and scenes of a risqué nature as I feel I've opened up a new chapter both personally and professionally.

[on filming her nude sex scene in Wrong Turn 6] It wasn't easy doing it in front of 30 people, but I didn't become an actor to become half-hearted about what I do. You've just got to go for it.

[on wanting to act her entire life] I was an only child, and so I was a constant exhibitionist. I was always pretending to be dead at the bottom of the stairs, and my grandma would just step over me and say, "Oh dear, she's dead again."