Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.