I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

I can be a bit grumpy. Im full of angst, and hormones.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.