A scholar knows no boredom.
All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.
I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.
I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.
I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.
A mother's love — how sweet the name! What is a mother's love? — A noble, pure and tender flame, Enkindled from above, To bless a heart of earthly mould; The warmest love that can grow cold; This is a mother's love.
When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.
I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!
I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.