Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.