When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.