"Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think 'I hope I don't let them down.'"
"I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal."
"The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch."
"I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma."
"I'm a bit awkward."
"I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried."
"I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down."
"I love the fantasy genre, I'd love to be a member of the X-Men."
"Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it."
"I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is."
"There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for."
"I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately."
"It's really important that people don't view success as a competition."
"I'm not much of a risk taker, I'm more of an arty farty person."
"I love crime series."
"I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews."
"I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer."
"People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down."
"I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing."
"I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'"
"The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time."
"With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think."
"Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true."
"You, Me and The Apocalypse' is epic!"
"One of the joys about my job is that I've been able to constantly move and keep changing. The whole point of being an actor is you change your exterior everytime you do a new job and that's what keeps it exciting."
