It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

I'm such a diva on set.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.