As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.