Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.