I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

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.

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

I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.