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I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.