I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?, then that's a really good question to ask.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.'' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.