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I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

I was cast as the lead in a Warner Bros TV pilot and was immediately told I needed to lose weight. I got a bit weird about food for the first time in my life, and I thought, 'You know, this just isn't the life for me.'

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.