Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to.

The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.