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I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.

I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nice and pleased to see you - which is so different from London. Maybe I'll end up so tired of smiles and helpfulness that I'll long for the rudeness and cynicism of home.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.