Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.