Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .