I'm not much of a cake person.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.