If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background.

Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.