The things I love about this business the most, is that it is a challenge trying to prove to everyone - including yourself - that you can do something different than what people think you're capable of.

For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.

I'm overly sentimental and don't throw things away.

It's just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot - not just in a film that people will see, but with a character that's rich and complicated and that you can show you're capable of taking on.

I love that feeling. I guess I love escaping my life, really. I love going into another world and feeling for this amount of time that this is it, this is the world I'm going to live in. You feel it more during the rehearsal process.

I think it's a luxury when you love the thing you're promoting, and then you don't have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.

Every now and then, you get lucky enough to work with some people you feel like you would take a bullet for.

Sometimes you meet people, and you somehow feel like you've known them your whole life.