My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

I’ve been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director’s door you’ve still got to do your homework: you’ve still got to work hard.

Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.