When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.