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

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

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

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