It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.