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 would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.