Few things focus the mind like fear.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I’m not frightened of a bit of silence.

I’m naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I’m lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

I’m an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

At my core, the glass isn’t half-empty, it’s not even what I ordered in the first place.

My advice to you is please don’t ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don’t think you’re good enough.

If I hadn't had a baby, a part of me thinks I might have turned up on the red carpets all the time and gone, 'Hi, it's me!' Maybe other people do it because they haven't got kids and they've nowhere else to be. But because I have, I don't feel like that.

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.