Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.

It's a fun thing for journalists to say that Captain Kirk is the boyfriend role. I'm happy to give a laugh. But it's a really complex story.

I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.