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

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 never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

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.'

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.