You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.