I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I keep myself amused and others confused

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.