“I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding.”

Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

I don’t go online, I don’t read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I don’t really know what the dream role would be. That’s a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you’re immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

I haven’t got any friends from where I grew up, but that’s not to do with fame.

The buzz you get when you’re playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

I can’t think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you’re an actor.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

I don’t like to be me. I’m not so comfortable being me on screen because then I’d be a presenter. I’m not Jimmy Fallon.

Anyone who’s got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some ’50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That’s it, really – I’m not a musician, I’m not a singer.

It’s great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you’re doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

I’m constantly trying to find something that’s different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That’s not for me.

I grew up in the ’90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn’t into Boyzone, or anything.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who’s driving it.

I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.’

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

I was brought up as a physicist.