I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

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.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.