Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The rubbish needs taking out. The kids will be crying. They'll need feeding. Kids do not care whether you've been to the Oscars!

I'm a very good sleeper.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.