If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think I find being in a room on my own quite hard, which I think a lot of actors do because what we do is so inter-active. It's a very supportive profession... despite its reputation for being highly competitive it's actually one of the most collaborative professions you can do in the arts because you're always working in a team.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.