The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.