In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.