I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.