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

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

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

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

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.

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.