“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in – figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone’s problems that you don’t necessarily actually know anything about. I mean it is not challenging to be happy all the time. I don’t think I could do it!”

“I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.”

“None of the characters I’ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn’t be acting.”

“Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!”

“If I don’t do laundry today, I’m gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.”

“I’m not very political. I’m also not American and I don’t get to vote so my feelings are not really relevant.”

“I’d really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun… I do gymnastics and ballet, and I’m very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.”

“Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I’m 20 now, so I’m only just an adult.”

“Eighteen is a good age, cause you get the benefits of being a kid without the restrictions. Not that I’m irresponsible or immature.”

“I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing – which sounds really creepy….You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you’re there.”

“The most rebellious thing I’ve ever done is not going to be written about in an article that my mother’s going to read, so we can forget about that. I’m going to leave that up your imagination.”

“The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you’ve had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.”

[about getting True Blood role] “It’s really fun being the only pasty brunette vampire-looking person in the room that’s filled with people auditioning for a busty tan blonde person.”

[on joining the ranks of Hollywood stars who’ve gone blonde] “I feel fabulous… When I wake up in the morning and I haven’t had my coffee and I stumble downstairs, I’m like, ‘Oh, s—’ I completely forget that I’ve done this. And I have a few moments where I’m, like, ‘Who’s that?’”

“I don’t know what it is that I’m doing, but I’m really enjoying myself. And I’m free to do it as much as I want.”