The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.