I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.

When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

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.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.