To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

I just feel incredibly lucky. I went to drama school and about 28 of us graduated. I graduated from drama school in 2000, and I would say about two of us are working and able to make a living out of it. It is a tough profession. To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.