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

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

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

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

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.