Aimee Lou Wood

“Curiosity is the most important thing in life. If you are thinking that you're a finished product - that you're done and no one can teach you anything - then you're gonna have a miserable life.”

“That's a wonderful attribute in a person: to be open and listen. You can always learn from people.”

“I love going into the room for auditions, but hate doing self-tapes more than anything.”

“I think therapy can also be a bit of a weird thing, because it's amazing, and I think it's so vital, and it's helped me in so many ways, but it also does uncover things that you probably would never usually because it's like a bloody excavation. It's like unrooting everything.”

“I just think the best actors always reveal a part of themselves through the characters that they're playing, and it costs them something to play those parts and it should be a vulnerable feeling.”

“She has kind of stolen my name. Most people are talking to Aimee Gibbs, not to me, when they talk to me so it's a weird thing to get your head around.”

“I think shame exists a lot within the schooling system. A lot of the time, teachers tell people that they're wrong, when actually they're just being themselves.”

“As long as what you're offering up is authentic you'll always be interesting.”

“It's so true that people can dismiss young people, you know, they can overlook young people and not really think that they have any wisdom to impart.”

“With every year I'm more comfortable with who I am.”

“Well, I think I was a very strange child who wrote loads of plays and made my sister perform them. But I was quite shy, so I'd always do the writing side, and then when I went to secondary school, I didn't have any friends, 'cause I was weird.”

“I have suffered with body dysmorphia my whole life.”

“I'm very independent, but I'm also quite impressionable.”

“A lot of the mental health stuff I can relate to. Because I can obsess. I thought that was anxiety but actually I get anxiety because I'm having obsessive thoughts.”

“Feeling fat is not a feeling. You can feel full or you can feel bloated, or empty, or hungry, but you can't feel fat. It's an adjective. It's an aesthetic thing. The word shouldn't be demonised so much.”

“Lots of people can identify with a fear of abandonment because of childhood stuff. They say you're either afraid of abandonment or engulfment in relationships; most people are fearful of both, but you tend to be more of one of them.”

“I think that's what life is: happy and sad, bittersweet. It's everything all at once.”

“I've never been on a dating app since being recognisable. So I wouldn't know what that's like. If I'm really honest, I would probably be quite anxious about that.”

“Obviously, every single person recognises Bill Nighy, and he handles it with such grace.”

“I want to play Sally Bowles and I want to stretched by it, stretched out in my comfort zone.”