I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.
— Karla Crome
As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.
I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn't see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn't sit well with my conscience.
I've not been able to finish any project where I haven't had other people involved making me do it really.
I don't think comedic parts come naturally to me.
I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.
One of the joys about my job is that I've been able to constantly move and keep changing. The whole point of being an actor is you change your exterior everytime you do a new job and that's what keeps it exciting.
With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.
I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.
I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.
It's really important that people don't view success as a competition.
I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.
I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.
I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.
Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think 'I hope I don't let them down.'
Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.
It's important to find your tribe. If you can find people you can share ideas with, people you're mutually stimulated by it helps you move forward.
It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.
There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.
You need to be able to maintain a healthy voice and fit body to be able to give performances in a big theatre night after night.
You, Me and The Apocalypse' is epic!
The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.
People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.
I love crime series.
I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.
Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it.
I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.
The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.
For women to succeed in politics, business and entrepreneurial ventures they have to battle against a stereotype of being heartless and unfeminine.
I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.
I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point when someone who's not you turns around and validates your work it gives you a lot of confidence.
I'm really into the detective drama genre.
I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.
In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.
Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true.
I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'
I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.
I'm not much of a risk taker, I'm more of an arty farty person.
There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.
I love the fantasy genre, I'd love to be a member of the X-Men.
I'm a bit awkward.
I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.
