Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

You learn an enormous lot through failure.