I broke things to get attention.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.