Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.