As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.