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I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

I blub all the time, in the most weird situations - not in the ones that should make me cry. Music makes me very emotional.

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.

Living with Tourette's is not easy.

Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.