I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.