If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.

We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.