I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.