“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.”

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 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.

Life is more important than ‘what film I do next.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

It’s hard to care when no one loves you.

Sometimes in life the only thing we can do is stay hard! There are tons of things out here that can motivate you- use them ALL to your advantage!

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

If you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.