Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

You never have a consistent job as an actor, so you're always looking for the next thing. It's defined by the opportunities that come across your doorstep at the time. A career is totally in the hands of fate, in terms of how those opportunities arise.

I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy.

I was kind of overwhelmed by the idea that we are just balls of energy and that we have imposed terms on feelings.

We'll always have art, darling.

It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.