If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn’t happened to me much, but...

I like connecting with people, and that’s what good art is: a point of connection. There’s nothing better, on stage or on film.

I’m not in any rush to get anywhere. There’s a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it’s over. But everyone wants longevity, don’t they? It’s a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job...

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you’re in the way.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

You don’t come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

I didn’t become an actor to make money. And I didn’t become an actor to be famous – though people always gasp if you say that, as if it’s unfathomable that an actor doesn’t want...

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it’s not the size of the role, it’s the material and the people you are working with.

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren’t many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I’ve blocked it out, but I don’t think so.