Sometimes People Get Really Sniffy

My Mum Always Told Me I Was Precious, While My Dad Always Told Me I Was Worthless. I Think That's A Good Grounding For A Balanced Life.

I've Actually Found - Especially Doing My Cabaret Show - I'm Connecting With People In A Way I Haven't Connected With Them. I've Found That When You're Open And Honest, People Respond To That, Whatever You're Being Open And Honest About. You Could Then, When You Lay That As The Groundwork, Say, "here I Am. This Is What I Think. I Come In Peace." Then You're Able To Push Out, To Be Able To Talk About More Things. And That's Been A Really Heartening Thing About My Life, Actually.

I Actually Find In America, There's A Slight Snobbery About Actors Who Go Back And Forth Between Big Heavy Dramas And Popcorn Fare. That Always Intrigues Me, Because That Doesn't Exist In The Same Way In Britain. And I Imagine It Would Be Worse. In Terms Of The Sort Of Class, And The Sort Of Snobby, Slightly On The Back-foot Thing Britain Has. But It's Much More Prevalent In America. I'm Really Intrigued By It. I Don't Know Why That Is. But I'm Aiming To Break Down Those Barriers By Being In A Shakespeare Film And A Smurfs Film Within Six Months Of Each Other.

The Thing With Film And Theater Is That You Always Know The Story So You Can Play Certain Cues In Each Scene With The Knowledge That You Know Where The Story's Going To End And How It's Going To Go. But On Television Nobody Knows What's Going To Happen, Even The Writers.

He ... Knew, In That Instant, That His Life Would Not Be An Easy One-he Was Different, He Looked Different, He Thought Differently.