Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

You cant please all the people all the time.

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.