No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.