KARLA CROME

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 don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.

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.

It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.

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'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.

There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.

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 think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.

With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.

I love crime series.

I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.

I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.

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.'

I don't think comedic parts come naturally to me.

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.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

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.

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.

For women to succeed in politics, business and entrepreneurial ventures they have to battle against a stereotype of being heartless and unfeminine.

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.

I'm a bit awkward.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.