Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.