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 try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

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.'

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.

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