“I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.”

I would really love to do a musical, I don’t know in what capacity but something funny.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends – they’re a lot older than me, but they’re not even thinking about babies.

In the next few years I’d love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her – she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

I’m happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I’ve finally got a great group of friends. I’ve got a lovely little flat and my work’s here.

The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who’s 13, looks amazing – but she’s already worried about her figure.

I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

Yeah, I fancy women big time… I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman… Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don’t think she’s that dirty.

I suppose that’s a lot to do with our current climate and financial messes. I certainly see that people seem to have to work harder with a lot less time.

They’re great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn’t want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don’t have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

Weight doesn’t matter as long as you’re happy with yourself.

I always wanted to make an album and it was an idea that came to me when we first started working on Aladdin.

Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn’t have, or what I still wanted.

There’s something special about being on film sets; there’s an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films.

We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we’ve been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.

I’m not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.