I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

I'm not getting younger, so there's a commitment to the cause that one has to make

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.