Perdita Weeks

“It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.”

“I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again.”

“My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.”

“I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.”

“There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.”

“I don't think acting's difficult. It's not like learning to walk on your hands.”

“My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over in the end credits of her brilliant creation 'Girls.'”

“I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily.”

“People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.”

“It was a little bit strange as an English woman cast in 'Rebellion.' I read up about the events and, honestly, I knew very little about it to begin with it. It wasn't something that they cover in English schools at all.”

“I love 'The Goonies!'”

“I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats.”

“My heritage is Scottish and a lot of Irish, too.”

“There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks.”

“'The Great Fire' is more what I'm used to - being in costume and make-up for a long time, trying to be 'period appropriate.'”

“I'm a recycling obsessive.”

“Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.”

“It takes one heck of a lot of energy to be an actor-director - a rather terrifying prospect but a challenge I would definitely relish in the future, given the chance.”

“I was a very fat baby.”

“Basically, less is more when it comes to film.”