So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!