My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I always really loved comedy. It's the only thing I was ever good at.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.