I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.