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

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

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!

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

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.