I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.