I've slept with Prince..

Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything..

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, o….

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I….

I am not the we of anyone.

Where I create, there I am true..

Being short works for me..

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off..

When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? Th….

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible..

I'd like to work with Damien Hirst..

I won't be turning into Novak anytime soon..

I think in television you have an ever-closer bond to the audience because they're inviting you into your living rooms and their bedrooms 16 hours a ….

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?.

Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so o….

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people..

That's the main thing you have to have... trust..

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have..

I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character and asked them, "Wh….

I was the offbeat character that had to kiss the offbeat boys and, ugh, some of the boys they brought in. There was one boyfriend in particular, we h….