My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

I think that's what makes David Ayer really interesting. He likes to make a tough-y movie, but actually he's a character director. He's fascinated by the actual people who decide to have these jobs and the way it affects their lives.

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.