Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.