You just have to take control of your own performance.

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

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

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.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.