People need to be happy, and if a song makes them happy, that's cool.
I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.
I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.
I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.
I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.