I don't think there's a single person on this planet that doesn't have a day when they feel like they're off, like they're not doing a very good job of being them. We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.