To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I was a really pretentious teenager.