It Can Be A Miserable Profession, Acting,

Listen, Acting Is Not Surgery, It's Entertainment. You're Doing Something To Hopefully Move People, To Make Them Laugh, To Transport Them. But Actors Are Vulnerable, And The Reason We're Vulnerable Is That We're Always Trying To Recreate Human Behaviour.

Making 'birdsong,' On The One Hand You Have How Prestigious It Is And The Reputation Of The Book, Which Is Something That's An Extraordinary Piece Of Work. Sebastian Faulkes Is A Genius. So You Feel That Responsibility When You're Portraying That Character That He's Imagined And Millions Of Readers Have Pictured.

Actors Who Perhaps Are Super-confident And Have Absolute Belief In Themselves I Always Admire, Because I Can't Really Be Like That.

My First Film, 'like Minds,' Was With Toni Colette, Who Was Extraordinary. I Mean It Was Basically A Mini-masterclass For Acting On Film At A Time When All You Could Probably See Were My Eyebrows Bouncing Up And Down On Screen.

Up There On The Screen, We Can All Fly. But Down Here On Earth, We Need To Be Each Others Wings.