I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be...

I don't sing. If I could sing or dance, I would have done something really gross in a G-string by now - when I wasn't working and was desperate - and ruined my career.

You can improve in every stage of your career, and even in training, after training, analyzing your game, you can do a lot of stuff to make steps, and that's also a major point of becoming a top...

When it comes to work ethics and business, I look up to Aziz Ansari. He's got everything together on his own terms. He does stand-up, comes out with books, and has his own show.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was something I found a passion for; it wasn't there immediately.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

My grandad used to work in the mines, he's retired now, but he's been a big part of my career.

In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.

I've had a good career.

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But...

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.

Do what you love, especially if you're sharing the word

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

One of the most common versions of this mistake that high-potential young professionals make is believing that investments in life can be sequenced.

Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.