Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.