Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

You can only lead by example.