There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

I was never very happy at school.

But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.