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.

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 think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

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

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

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.