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

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.

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You're only going to be told you're doing a good job and get big headed about it, or be told you're rubbish and get down in the dumps. What's the point?

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

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.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.