When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

When I was younger, I never had that fascination.

One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.